Mahmud Shah of Malacca
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Mahmud Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah was Sultan of Malacca from 1488 to 1511, and again as pretender to the throne from 1513 to 1528. He was son of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah. As a m
Mahmud Shah of Malacca
Siege of Bintan
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The siege of Bintan of 1526 was a military operation in which Portuguese forces successfully sieged, assaulted and destroyed the city of Bintan, capital of the former Sultan of Malacca Mahmud Shah.
Mahmud Shah of Malacca
…sultanate, he left for Bintan and became a leader of a small confederacy which led attacks against Portuguese-occupied Malacca in the late 1510s. After retaliation from the Portuguese in 1526, he fled to Riau and died there in 1528. He had several consorts, the most notable being Tun Teja. The sultan was surrounded by able men and warriors…
Portuguese galleon, carracks, round-caravel and oarships, depicted by Dom João de Castro in Roteiro do Mar Roxo, 1540.
Dom Pedro Mascarenhas.